Hi all
Dad has been taken back into hospital again with suspected internal bleeding. Luckily nothing has been found and the consultant suspects that his iron tablets have been causing the 'black stools' problem, even though he's only been on them for less than a week. But they want to hang onto him for a week to see why his blood count is so low and why he's so desperately tired and sleeping all the time.
However, Dad's dementia seems to have taken a turn for the worse - big time. He was hallucinating yesterday when I went to see him but not too badly and seemed reasonably happy until I started to get ready to go, then he complained bitterly about being left there. But today he was hallucinating terribly, all to do with his dog being cooked in an oven or stabbed with a sword by one of the female doctors so was pretty distressed and then got really aggressive with both me and my partner when we were about to leave - he thinks I've put him in there to die, that there's nothing at all wrong with him, I've got rid of his dog (she's in kennels but he doesn't know that because he won't tolerate it!) and started to really shout and swear at me when I told him he has to stay there for a while longer. I thought at one point he was going to throw the water jug and cups at me. When we went to get a nurse she said he'd been agitated for most of the day so they'd had him sitting at the nurses station 'sorting paperwork' for them.
He thinks just now that I'm the cause of all his problems, calls me a liar and just doesn't trust me at all, we had a performance with him when he was admitted on his doctors orders earlier this week. We're now beginning to wonder whether we should just ring over the next couple of days to make sure he's OK and not go to see him to avoid distressing him so much, he seems to be absolutely fine with everybody else there then starts getting more and more agitated as soon as we appear.
What should I do????????
AJay (in desperation)
Dad has been taken back into hospital again with suspected internal bleeding. Luckily nothing has been found and the consultant suspects that his iron tablets have been causing the 'black stools' problem, even though he's only been on them for less than a week. But they want to hang onto him for a week to see why his blood count is so low and why he's so desperately tired and sleeping all the time.
However, Dad's dementia seems to have taken a turn for the worse - big time. He was hallucinating yesterday when I went to see him but not too badly and seemed reasonably happy until I started to get ready to go, then he complained bitterly about being left there. But today he was hallucinating terribly, all to do with his dog being cooked in an oven or stabbed with a sword by one of the female doctors so was pretty distressed and then got really aggressive with both me and my partner when we were about to leave - he thinks I've put him in there to die, that there's nothing at all wrong with him, I've got rid of his dog (she's in kennels but he doesn't know that because he won't tolerate it!) and started to really shout and swear at me when I told him he has to stay there for a while longer. I thought at one point he was going to throw the water jug and cups at me. When we went to get a nurse she said he'd been agitated for most of the day so they'd had him sitting at the nurses station 'sorting paperwork' for them.
He thinks just now that I'm the cause of all his problems, calls me a liar and just doesn't trust me at all, we had a performance with him when he was admitted on his doctors orders earlier this week. We're now beginning to wonder whether we should just ring over the next couple of days to make sure he's OK and not go to see him to avoid distressing him so much, he seems to be absolutely fine with everybody else there then starts getting more and more agitated as soon as we appear.
What should I do????????
AJay (in desperation)